Friday, October 2, 2009

Well, the results are in and Tin Man came in fifth place. My lowest yet. Ironic since I actually thought he was a little more mainstream than previous years which placed higher. The viewing public voted and have spoken - and I have the light blue Honorable Mention ribbon to prove it.

Rot, what category were you in? When you look at the others, they really weren't scarecrows at all! They were just unoriginal corporate cartoon displays. Don't get me wrong I love Snoopy and PEANUTS more than the average person, and that Snoopy set up was pretty funny, but for originality, creativity and just plain Halloween awesomeness, yours can't be beat! It was a pleasure to actually get to see your work up close.

I usually enter the Traditional category, but I felt Tin Man wasn't exactly like a regular scarecrow like Johnny Appleseed or The Hollowman, so I put him in the Quite the Character category - a figure from TV or Film...

I'm actually shocked that the UP character didn't beat the Snoopy- Killing-Birds-With-A-Machine-Gun scarecrow.

Nearly speechless am I... who the heck is judging this thing and what are they on? Your Tin Man was clearly THE WIN - have you made someone mad and been blacklisted? That's all I can think of ...you are #1 ALL THE WAY!

well, there's the public and then there's the public....the majority ain't always right...anyway, as far as I'm concerned there is absolutely no doubt your 'tin man' should have won; from an artistic point of view, there was no contest.

It would probably take you about 5 minutes to whip up some piece of corporate junk that would win hands down. Thank God you create genuine art instead! Who judge's this thing anyway? Not one of the 4 'winners' were actual scarecrows!